Americanization in the States: Immigrant Social Welfare Policy, Citizenship, and National Identity in the United States, 1908?1929 - Christina A. Ziegler?McPherson - Books - University Press of Florida - 9780813035505 - April 1, 2010
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Christina A. Ziegler?McPherson
Americanization in the States: Immigrant Social Welfare Policy, Citizenship, and National Identity in the United States, 1908?1929

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In the first decades of the twentieth century, a number of states had bureaus whose responsibility was to help immigrants assimilate into American society. Often described negatively as efforts to force foreigners into appropriate molds, Christina Ziegler-McPherson demonstrates that these programs--including adult education, environmental improvement, labor market regulations, and conflict resolutions--were typically implemented by groups sympathetic to immigrants and their cultures. Americanization in the States offers a comparative history of social welfare policies developed in four distinct regions with diverse immigrant populations: New York, California, Massachusetts, and Illinois. By focusing on state actions versus national agencies and organizations, and by examining rural and western approaches in addition to urban and eastern ones, Ziegler-McPherson broadens the historical literature associated with Americanization. She also reveals how these programs, and the theories of citizenship and national identity used to justify their underlying policies, were really attempts by middle-class progressives to get new citizens to adopt Anglo-American, middle-class values and lifestyles.

248 pages, black & white illustrations

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released April 1, 2010
ISBN13 9780813035505
Publishers University Press of Florida
Pages 256
Dimensions 155 × 233 × 13 mm   ·   333 g
Language English  

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